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Oakland, California 615 East 18th Street My dear Uncle and Auntie ; We are all O.K. and hope you are the same. But the town is a sight. And San Francisco is in ashes. We can see the city burn from the hill. Every chimney is off of the houses around there but our chimney did not come off. Mrs. Moore's chimney fell in our dining room and broke the window all to pieces even the wood work. Auntie your bank still stands, but it is well cracked up. The schools are all cracked and broken, no school for two weeks. The Oaks is down, Palace

Oakland, California 615 East 18th Street My dear Uncle and Auntie ; We are all O.K. and hope you are the same. But the town is a sight. And San Francisco is in ashes. We can see the city burn from the hill. Every chimney is off of the houses around there but our chimney did not come off. Mrs. Moore's chimney fell in our dining room and broke the window all to pieces even the wood work. Auntie your bank still stands, but it is well cracked up. The schools are all cracked and broken, no school for two weeks. The Oaks is down, Palace Hotel, [Emporeum], Holzbergs, all the places from the [waterfront] up to 10th St. is burned. We heard this morning that Greagy [Geary?] Street is burning down. We looked for you folks all day yesterday, why don't you come down. How did the house [stand] it? Did Quien's house fall? Did Dunbar go down the hill. The dam down by the lake sank a foot. Come on down and see the ruins. You cannot go over to the city, but we are going over in the first boat that runs, but you can come from the city here. Yesterday they put two [hundred] tents up in [Idora?] Park for the homeless folks from the city. Every one around here [has] some poor homeless person with them. I would write more but I suppose you can read it all in the paper. Tell Miss Davidson that Van Ness Ave is burning. Good bye Your Loving Niece Georgia Write and tell me [what] [happened] up there. the Call building is no more. Try and come down. G. M. M.
We['re] going down town, Good bye GMM. [Envelope:] [postmark] Oakland, Cal Apr 19 10:30 p.m. 1906
[Return address] G. M. Merlinjones 610
East 18th St Oakland Cal.
[Address] L. and H. Justi Glen Ellen
Sonoma Co, California
[verso:] [postmark] Glen Ellen Apr 220 10 a.m.
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Oakland, California 615 East 18th Street My dear Uncle and Auntie ; We are all O.K. and hope you are the same. But the town is a sight. And San Francisco is in ashes. We can see the city burn from the hill. Every chimney is off of the houses around there but our chimney did not come off. Mrs. Moore's chimney fell in our dining room and broke the window all to pieces even the wood work. Auntie your bank still stands, but it is well cracked up. The schools are all cracked and broken, no school for two weeks. The Oaks is down, Palace